Can't seem to find this simple script anywhere. I'm trying to create a script that runs when the enter and right arrow key is pressed.
Here's what I've tried so far:
{Enter}{Right}::
Send, #tab
return
I know it must be something really simple but can't find the solution anywhere!
Here's the documentation link for hotkeys:
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm
And in there, after understanding the basics, you're interested in this part of it:
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm#combo
And assuming by #tab you mean pressing Windows key and the Tab key, you want to look at this page of the documentation:
https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/misc/Remap.htm
(If you wanted to use the Send command, it'd be Send, #{Tab})
You should end up with this:
Enter & Right::#Tab (have to press enter before right arrow key)
And that works, though you're probably going to want to add one little addition, which the ~ modifier.
It'll make it so your Enter key also works on itself while the script is active.
So you'd end up with this:
~Enter & Right::#Tab
Though, now you'll always send a Enter keystroke every time you run the hotkey, which might not be good, I recommend switching it around to:
~Right & Enter::#Tab
Related
I have a long mermaid code line like
A("hello world, this is a really long sentence that needs editing"):::test %% here are some commments about the line
I'm editing this in obsidian and I want to go to the end of the ) to change the :::test to something else.
What I'm trying to accomplish is to press use AHK to press a key that will take my cursor to after the ). Right now, I can press end and go back wards, or ctrl arrow, both options suck when the code line is really long and the ) is right in the middle.
can AHK do something like this?
this works in obsidian, probably works in most apps
!\::
Send {home}
Send ^f
Send )
Send {esc}{esc}
return
I want to map two dot/period key presses to Tab key in AutoHotkey script. I tried to map similarly as its shown for remapping semicolon key - on AutoHotkey forums, but it doesn't work. I tried following:
1. `..`::Tab
2. ..::Tab
AutoHotkey gives an error
.
I tried searching on AutoHotkey Remap docs, but couldn't figure it out. The period key is the one with the greater than mark and not the number keypad period key. See this: Dot/period key
Addition info/context in response to reply by user 0x464e:
Basically, I am trying to expand Emmet style abbreviations in devtools style sub-panel since the chrome devtools team wont implement it.
I am not a fast typist, so it's a pain to type complete property names. For example, if I want to type margin-top, (see the image), Chrome autocomplete brings up margin, margin-block margin-block-end etc.
Now, for margin-top, you need to at least type margin-t to get the autocomplete to show that property.
This is the case for many very common CSS properties like margins, paddings, etc., so autocomplete isn't great.
On the other hand, if I just type mt and have Autohotkey expand to margin-top, it's much much faster, saves me much time and keeps me sane.
Basically, I have setup some hotstring in .ahk script and they work too.
However, if I press mt followed by a Tab key press, Chrome's autocomplete takes over and hotstring fails, (try once to see the problem). Instead, currently I press spacebar, or . (period) to trigger the hotstring. It works, but the problem is it leaves a space or a dot with the expanded text. [see this].
So, that's the actual reason I wanted a double period key trigger to replace Tab.
It would be great if the hotstring trigger would work with a double period key, but doesn't leave the trigger character itself and then have send Tab so as to jump to the value input of the just expanded property.
You're not really looking for a traditional remap, which is why you didn't find it from the documentation.
Remapping is just simply remapping one key to another, but you're not trying to do that. You're trying to make some action do another action.
Anyway, what you're asking is doable, but there's loads of different ways it can be achieved with difficulties varying from simple to extremely advanced & complicated.
You'll need to specify things more clearly before this can be answered properly.
Biggest questions that pop into my head right away are at least:
Should this work everywhere, or just in text input fields?
How should the original functionality of . be preserved, if at all.
(What should happen after the initial . keypress?)
Should there be some timeout between the keypresses?
Etc, this is just what I could think of right away, but surely there's more.
Anyway, for now I can give a simple implementation with a hotstring:
:*?:..::{Tab}
So this is a hotstring with the * and ? options.
I'm guessing these would probably be pretty good options for this.
So what this does, is it presses backspace twice and sends a Tab if you type ...
This should be fine for text editors, but it leaves much to be desired (the points I listed above aren't considered since I can't know what you're looking for. This is just what a default simple hotstring can offer).
Looks to me like you don't actually want the additional mapping of .. to Tab, but instead just want to update your existing hotstrings to activate immediately (without waiting for an EndChar) when the hotstring is followed by ..
Normally, you might look to the Ending Characters option to create this functionality, but since you want multiple characters to trigger this, we need to look to other options.
I will be using the example of ::mt::margin-top for my sample implementation. Extend any changes I make to these to the rest of your hotstrings in the script you screenshotted.
Here are the changes I am making to this example:
Add your .. to the end of each of your hotstrings triggers. For example ::mt::margin-top becomes ::mt..::margin-top. However, at this present, this still requires some sort of ending character to be pressed in order to proc. Let's fix that in the next step
Add the Asterisk Modifier to the hotstring. From the docs:
* (asterisk): An ending character (e.g. Space, ., or Enter) is not required to trigger the hotstring.
Final code for ::mt::margin-top example:
:*:mt..::margin-top
And extend this * insertion and .. appendation to each of your hotstrings.
Hope this helped! Lmk if you need any more help or changes.
I have a Autohotkey script that puts "D89dl" at the end of a sentence everytime I press Enter, but using it with a AutoCorrect script it doesn't work as it should. Let's say you type "dont", it then would look like this "don't" instead of "don't.". Something is blocking it but I'm not sure what it is, I've been trying for months now.
Here are the scripts:
enter::
send,D89dl{Enter}
Return
#Hotstring EndChars -()[]{}:;'"/\,.?!`n `t
::dont::don't
I would be VERY thankful if anyone of you helps me with this.
Overall, do you know any other way instead of Autohotkey that puts "D89dl" at the end of a sentence?
The easiest solution seems to be to use the :*: mode, which will trigger everytime the misspelled word is typed, without the need for Hotstring EndChars:
:*:dont::don't
Instead of using Enter, I suggest you use a special combination of keys that enter the string D89dl and then press Enter. Use a modifier like ctrl or alt and another key. The reasoning is that the key Enter has very important functionality and should not be changed. Pressing that special combination is appropriate, given the very special function it does.
It's a bit hacky, but it should do the job (given that by "end of sentence" you actually meant pressing "Enter"):
~enter::
Sleep, 100
SendInput, {BS}D89dl{Enter}
Return
#Hotstring EndChars -()[]{}:;'"/\,.?!`n `t
::dont::don't
I have written a python script for my co-workers, and then created an autohotkey script to run it every time someone presses Ctrl+LShift+Y. Looks something like this:
^+y::Run helper.py
The python script is fine, but the ahk script doesn't work on all the computers. Sometimes it works fine, and sometimes you get this error:
^+y does not exist in current keyboard layout
Now, searching the web this seems to be a problem with multi-language keyboards (we're using both Hebrew and English), because different languages means a different layouts (I guess?). I also found someone explaining that to solve this you need to use scan codes instead of the usual ^ and + and so on (I'd link to it but I cannot seem to find it now).
This all vaguely makes sense to me on a theoretical level, but when I want to realize it with actual code, I don't really know what to do. To me it seems as if this topic is hardly discussed (with the few exceptions being lacking in examples or hard to understand), so I'd love an answer that would include the following:
some simple way of determining the scan code for a key. This should preferably be a pythonic solution (and just out of curiosity, I'd love to know how to do this with linux as well). This is probably the easier part (but I think is an inherent part of a complete answer).
This is the important part: examples of how you implement that scan code in an autohotkey script, including edge-cases (if there are any).
Question 1
As you want to use the key with autohotkey, it makes sense to use autohotkey detect the key in the first place. Obviously this method works only on windows where autohotkey is running.
Write a Autohotkey script with this line and run it.
#InstallKeybdHook
Press the key you want to examine.
Open the script menu by right clicking the icon of the script in the right lower corner of your screen.
Select OPEN, then from the Menu "View / Key history and script info"
There is a line for each keypress.
First column is the VK (Virtual key) code, next is the scancode.
For example for CAPSLOCK the VK is 14 and the Scancode 03a
Question 2:
#InstallKeybdHook
VK14::
msgbox, you pressed capslock!
return
OR
#InstallKeybdHook
SC03a::
msgbox, you pressed capslock!
return
both work.
Note that you can combine two keys into a hotkey by combining them with & (but not 3)
#InstallKeybdHook
RShift & SC03a::
msgbox, you pressed Rshift capslock!
return
You can modify a Scancode with + and ^
#InstallKeybdHook
^+SC02C::
msgbox, you pressed Ctrl Shift and Y(maybe)!
return
Further info about this is on the page "List of Keys, Mouse Buttons, and Joystick Controls" of the autohotkey help file that comes with the default installation.
My script is only activating when I press the numpad enter, is it possible for it to work if I press the big enter?
Here is what I have, when I type test + numpad enter then it invokes ctr+shift+u
:*:test`n::test^+u
I need the other enter to work or both if possible.
Thanks
I tried this:
:*:test`n::bob
And it types bob no matter which enter key I push. If you use n, that doesn't necessarily indicate that you are pushing anyenterkey - it just means you are inserting a carriage return - so eitherenter` key will do that. But your text area must be able to receive and insert a carriage return.
That means, that if you are working in a single-line text box, it can't receive a carriage return, in which case, using `n won't work for you.
You might also assure that the active window is able to receive ^!u and do something with that.